Why it most definitely is a wonderful zombie film

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2014)

Garland and Boyle created a wonderful post apocalyptic world filled with living, rage filled, homicidal zombies.
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Those who claim they couldn't be zombies might do well to acquaint themselves with a fairly extensive collection of films that predate even Night of The Living Dead in which the word zombie is frequently used in the titles. In the lexicon of common terminology there are TV zombies, internet zombies, texting zombies, smart phone zombies etc. They all fit a broad definition of people that have lost their self awareness and aren't using their brains- to one degree or another. In 28 Days Later the victims of the virus are not acting rationally, but rather have been reduced to an animal-like furious mental state which causes them to seek out and destroy/infect those that are different. The George Romero style undead type of zombie and the ones in 28 Days Later are in more ways similar than not. Having written several novels involving zombies, both undead and living insane ones, I feel arguing about what constitutes a 'true' zombie is a pointless thing until we someday find them roaming the streets outside our homes. In Valley of Death Zombie Trailer Park, a fairly well received FREE novel, there are actually both types mentioned above. A virus creates the maddened furious living zombies which when killed reanimate as the undead variety. 28 Days Later was a very good zombie film, but had the killed infected then reanimated and continued their antisocial behavior it probably would have been the best.